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But whether it was getting too cold, the kids had school the next day or there was a bus or train to catch, shouldn’t supporters do what their name suggests?

That is … support the team, through thick and thin, through the joy and the dross. And to the bitter end, too.

And not run the risk, as transpired on Monday, of not witnessing a rousing late comeback, in which QPR scored in the third and fourth minutes of stoppage time to force a dramatic 2-2 draw.

QPR manager Ian Holloway (Image: PA)

In a scathing post-match dig at Rangers’ premature exiteers, Holloway said: “You should have stayed. You might not have missed your last bus but you missed a treat. If you missed it, you ain’t half missed something.

“Everybody who did stay, well done, you deserved that. Don’t go home early.”

Top marks “Oli” … until the next day, when the QPR PR and HR departments had clearly ensnared him in their PC claws.

And he humbly apologised, in a limp recorded message on the club’s website, to those who he had bawled out the night before.

Why? Why? Why?

Holloway usually sticks to his guns, whatever the flak or the fallout, and I’ve long admired him for that.